Lilou said:
I have little doubt that it is indeed manufactured. Is it coincidence that the mutated cold virus, killing 50% of those who contract it, was first diagnosed in the Middle East? And then there is this article http://www.sott.net/article/252044-Is-new-Middle-Eastern-SARS-virus-an-Arab-specific-biological-weapon
I was looking for the article on SOTT that tells about the Egyptian doctor fired from his post in Saudi Arabia for identifying this virus on a medical forum. But didn't find it for some reason. Do you suppose this is the same virus hitting folks in Alabama and Texas? Or some similar engineered cold virus? Very scary stuff!
Thank you, Lilou, for posting the link. On this nCOV-MERS, it's interesting, osit, that it was the virologist, Ron Fouchier, who identified and tested this novel virus was the same one, who created a deadly H5N1 virus in laboratory, and he works at Erasmus Medical Center in Rotterdam, were Dr. Albert Osterhaus, aka Ab Osterhaus, mentioned by cope in the previous post, works as well.
From Wiki, here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middle_East_respiratory_syndrome_coronavirus:
The Erasmus Medical Center in Rotterdam "tested, sequenced and identified" a sample provided to EMC virologist Ron Fouchier, a leading coronavirus researcher, by Ali Mohamed Zaki in November 2012.
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On 8 November 2012 in an article published in the New England Journal of Medicine, Dr. Zaki and co-authors from the Erasmus Medical Center, published more details, including a tentative name, Human Coronavirus-Erasmus Medical Center (HCoV-EMC), the virus’s genetic makeup and closest relatives, including SARs.
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Fouchier and his team of researchers successfully sequenced the whole genome of the new coronavirus naming the viral strain Human Coronavirus-Erasmus Medical Center (hCoV-EMC) after their research center. They published its genomic sequence in the GenBank (accession code: JX869059) in the fall of 2012.
Saudi officials had not given permission to Dr. Zaki to send a sample of the virus to Fouchier and they were angered when Fouchier claimed the patent on the full genetic sequence of the Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus. Fouchier's creation of a dangerous and highly contagious strain of the H5N1 virus resulted in a global controversy ignited by fears that his academic articles published in journals might provide "a cookbook for a biological attack".
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In November 2012, Dr. Zaki sent a virus sample to confirm his findings to EMC virologist Ron Fouchier, a leading coronavirus researcher at the Erasmus Medical Center in Rotterdam.
Here,
in Isolation of a Novel Coronavirus from a Man with Pneumonia in Saudi Arabia http://www.virology-bonn.de/fileadmin/user_upload/_temp_/Zaki_et_al.pdf both Albert D.M.E. Osterhaus and Ron A.M. Fouchier are mentioned as co-authors of the said paper.
In the Discussion part of the paper, mentioned above, it is said:
The first decade of the 21st century has witnessed an increase in the number of coronaviruses that have been identified, along with a corresponding increase in the number of coronavirus genomes that have been sequenced. Such increases were due to the discovery of the SARS coronavirus, which resulted in a global outbreak of pneumonia in 2003 that affected persons in approximately 30 countries and resulted in about 800 deaths. Before 2003, only two human coronaviruses were
known, HCoV-229E and HCoV-OC43, both discovered in the 1960s. After the emergence of the SARS-CoV in 2003, two additional human coronaviruses were discovered, HCoV-NL63 and HCoV-HKU1.
Why this sudden appearance of the coronavirus? it's very suspicious, osit. Ron Fouchier admitted that he made a deadly H5N1 virus in laboratory, and now, he patented or tried to patent this nCOV-Mers virus, as mentioned in my previous post? So, probably, because he knows it was made by him, that's why he tries to patent it?
Again from Wiki here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middle_East_respiratory_syndrome_coronavirus:
In September 2012, Ron Fouchier speculated that the virus might be an animal origin originating in bats. Sequencing and subsequent analysis indicated that the novel coronavirus shared high sequence homology with both bat and porcine coronaviruses, the highest of which were bat coronaviruses HKU4 and HKU5 (about 94% similarity; carried by the genus Pipistrellus). An article published in the Emerging Infectious Disease Journal in March 2013 identified bat coronaviruses carried by the genus Pipistrellus that differed from hCoV-EMC by as little as 1.8%. There are several species of Pipistrellus in the Arabian Peninsula. The high potential for use of cave-derived water and bat guano strongly suggests that they may be the pre-crossover zoonotic reservoir
but at the same time in the same source in the previous paragraph it says that
To date, no known routine contact exists between humans and bats. There is speculation that an intermediate host is responsible for the sudden appearance of the virus in the human population
Oh, that's even more interesting, osit. How it happened that this virus jumped species all of the sudden, maybe, because it was made to do just that? SARS virus appeared in Asian population, now this nCOV-MERS virus closely related to SARS appears in Arab population, and both target the respiratory systems.
And what about this Dr. Albertus Osterhouse, mentioned by cope? Thank you, cope.
From Wikipedia here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ab_Osterhaus:
... known as Ab Osterhaus, is a leading Dutch virologist and influenza expert. A Professor of Virology at Erasmus University Rotterdam since 1993, Osterhaus is known throughout the world for his work on SARS and H5N1, the pathogen that causes avian influenza. As the country's foremost virus expert, he frequently appears on Dutch television. He has been criticised for exaggerating the consequences of the 2009 flu pandemic and pushing for extensive measures, even though the Mexican flu is now treated as if it were a common flu. In September 2009, a controversy arose when it became known Osterhaus has a 9.8% share in ViroClinics B.V, a pharmaceutical company that supposedly benefits from the 34 million vaccines Health minister Ab Klink bought based on his advice as government consultant.
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In 1993 he became Professor of Virology at the Medical Faculty of Erasmus University and also head of the Department of Virology at Erasmus University Medical Centre Rotterdam.
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On 2 January 2008 an article appeared in PLoS ONE describing a new vaccine for H5N1 virus, developed by Rotterdam pharmaceutical company ViroClinics B.V., a spin-out company of the Erasmus MC where Osterhaus works as scientific advisor.
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Osterhaus has been criticised for what has been described as a 'fear campaign', calling for far-reaching measures to combat the Mexican flu. Physician and microbiologist Miquel Ekkelenkamp called Osterhaus a 'scaremonger' in an opinion piece in nrc.next and said: "'Expert' Osterhaus should be banned indefinitely from television. Everything he claimed turned out to be untrue: we're not all going to die like we did in 1918, not everyone needs a vaccination, we are not going to give Tamiflu to everyone and the virus has not mutated into something much more dangerous."[7] Osterhaus claimed he has not exaggerated the risks. During debate 'De Kwestie live' he said "I have named a wide spectrum of possibilities and minister Ab Klink decided to go for the worst-case scenario"
Oh, what an interesting place, this Erasmus University Medical Centre Rotterdam is, isn't it? It appears that all recent "deadly" outbreaks lead to it.